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by mrjangles 5y ago
It's just that it is very much a "mathematics for engineers" style course. I think very few of the subjects outlined there give you a flavor for what "real" mathematics is really all about at all (except for algebr
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Yep, I came here to say this. I think it is important that anyone who wants to study math understand that real math is not at all like what you learn in a physics or engineering department. In these departments you will always hear people
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I think what happens here is that Orwell is having a big stab at the intelligencia, and the intelligencia at the time (as now) hated nationalism. He is trying to point out all the ways their behavior is just like that of overzealous nation
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Last I checked the there were enough free parameters in these calculations to make the calculations of less than convincing. For example those 'hadronic observables' make up such a big part of the actual results that what is left
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Ok good point, I think I got side tracked with my comment. Perhaps a better analogy would be: Someone who claims to be a chess player, but keeps getting disqualified from tournaments for making illegal moves. For example, when it comes to Q
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by mrjangles 5y ago
My comment went from, like +10 votes to -1 and flagged in 1 hour. Is this your doing or someone else? I also have a PhD in Physics, everyone I know in my field agrees with me, including my professors. Sorry, but disagreeing with me is NOT
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Back in the 1960s and thereabouts, physicists liked to believe that this was the case. Since then, breakthroughs in our understanding of quantum mechanics and solid state physics has changed that (particularly in things like super conducti
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Probably the most important part: >Martin also said NASA is obscuring costs that it is spending on the Artemis program and that, in aggregate, his office believes NASA will spend $93 billion from 2012 to 2025 on the Artemis program.
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by mrjangles 5y ago
You need to read the article to understand my comment. It is specifically about the crisis in high energy particle physics and cosmology. My comment specifically mentions advances in other areas of physics. In case it wasn't clear,
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Whenever I read any history of European democracies, I always get the impression that political oppression was a lot worse in the past than it is now, despite how bad it may appear. I've always wondered if Europe's decline into t
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by mrjangles 5y ago
But the civil war in the Ukraine has been going on for 8 years, 12k people have died over this time and the shelling has been fairly continuous over this time with only short lived cease fires. So what has been happening is already simila
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by mrjangles 5y ago
The article doesn't mention, but also one of the million dollar Millennium Prizes is to do with exactly this. Except for a few very special circumstances (high energy collisions), we can't get any real answers from Quantum Chromod
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I didn't believe you so I looked this all up and indeed everything you said is correct. My GR professor was famously one of the worst academics at the department and he never taught us any of that. His specialty was GR too. Anyway, y
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Here is the article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-t... relevant line. “In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that th
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I'm guessing from these responses that 'singularity' has turned into kind of pop-culture term expressing the center of a black hole. A singularity is just where physical quantities go to infinity. There are many singularitie
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by mrjangles 5y ago
This makes no sense. When you apply the mathematics of fluid dynamics to the problem of water leaking through a dam wall, you get singularities. It makes no sense to say "you either believe the amount of water in a dam wall becomes in
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Einstein and all the great scientists from that era didn't miss black holes, they thought the idea of black holes were stupid and looked down on people doing that kind of research. Freeman Dyson talks about this in a few interviews -
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by mrjangles 5y ago
And tell me, what do you think would happen if they started building wind turbines in the middle of cities? There is no reason you couldn't fill Central Park in New York with them. Maybe put one on top of every building? You could h
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Oh wow my mistake. Yes it is actually the sequel "what do you care what other people think" that was written after his death. Yeah knowing he wrote it, I guess it does come off a little more egotistical than I at first assumed.
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Ok maybe I was being overly hyperbolic before, but the facts here are clear: The CCP used people in Australia to get close to, and pay off, politicians who they thought would be inclined to favor their cause. Every single one of them belon
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by mrjangles 5y ago
for some reason, a great many people on the internet don't seem to understand that it is not "his book". It was written after his death by his friend.
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I don't suppose you know how to search your own comments do you? I could find it for you if you really wanted because I commented on it the last time it was on the front page (quite a long time ago). I would need instructions on how
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by mrjangles 5y ago
>spinning this to claim that the Labor party are friendly to China. Sorry but this is ridiculous. The Labor party are openly friendly with China, this isn't some kind of spin. Not only that, but their supporters in the left wing
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by mrjangles 5y ago
Just in case anyone was in doubt of how despicably dishonest this particular source is, you should definitely go ahead and read this. Edit: wow, and at the end they even try to imply that anti-vaxers are involved with the Russians (with car
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by mrjangles 5y ago
>Tesla's Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs.... This article doesn't say it, but the last time this came up, in small print, it was admitted that all reported in
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by mrjangles 5y ago
17% of people under 30 have been in a committed relationship with someone they met online, ever (gets lower with age too) https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/06/the-virtues-... of those with a p
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I've never seen a libertarian go to the grocer and demand that he be given food for free.
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I mean, you would have to read a history book written before 1980 when it became popular to start rewriting history. But a quick search comes up with this for example https://thewire.in/caste/caste-history-postcolonial
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I remember reading a very long time ago that someone did some research on this very subject and found that the majority of problems go away if you don't deal with them. They concluded that this could be part of the reason procrastinat
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by mrjangles 5y ago
This is the usual rewriting of history. It is an extremely modern trend to try to blame the caste system on the British. The British weakened but tolerated the caste system because there would have been immediate revolution had they even th

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